Josei - Page 8

“Make sure you wear your collar nicely. So you never lose your way again.” From the beginning, their arranged marriage was never meant to include love. Ah-hyeon hid her long-held feelings, but she never gave up. “I enjoyed how you tried to seduce me just to get pregnant.” All her efforts were shattered and mocked by Yoon Ki-ju. “We should get divorced.” “You’ll never escape me for the rest of your life.” Even her hard-won decision is denied, but Ah-hyeon decides to leave him. There was something she had to protect—no matter what. “Make sure you wear your collar nicely. So you never lose your way again.” But the man ultimately finds her, and this time he fastens an even stronger collar around her— as if he would never let her go.

Joo Eun-hye always lived under pressure to be 'obedient' in a strict wealthy family. She seemed to be living an enviable life according to her family's wishes, but after just 2 years of marriage, she witnesses her husband's affair. Eun-hye, who confronted her husband, hears that this marriage was not love but a 'transaction'. Afterwards, she meets attractive bartender Lee Yuri at a bar she frequently visited. To him, who lives by forming secret relationships with wealthy women and receiving pocket money, she impulsively proposes a 'one-night stand'... "Are you really going to cheat with me? I'm expensive."

Hee-yeon, a girl crushed by debt in the rundown neighborhood of Changseong, is on the verge of being dragged to a red-light district. She is saved by Moo-gil, a gangster who appeared like the wind. “I'm good at studying. I can repay my debt without working in the lower town.” “You're surprisingly impressive for someone like you. Start coming to work here tomorrow.” As she spends time by Moo-gil's side, Hee-yeon gradually becomes more immersed in his tenderness. But the moment he realized her feelings, Moo-gil suddenly turned cold, unlike before... “Just call me ‘mister’. I’m not your boss when you’re swearing.”

“Did I ever give you room to hope, Yeonhee?” Junghoon clicked his tongue as if pitying her. She had believed that her one-sided crush on Team Leader Min Junghoon was love. Knowing that revealing her true feelings would mean the end, she buried them deep inside her heart— yet even in her desperate love, cracks eventually appeared. “I’m sorry, Team Leader. But it already ended a long time ago.” Now, she was ready to abandon him completely.

The grand union of two great families — everyone eagerly awaited the wedding. But on that very day, the groom showed up with his mistress. That’s when I finally spoke my mind. “I can’t do this. This marriage—” As I turned to leave the cold, silent hall, a man suddenly stood up in the middle of the chaos. “Then marry me instead.” ...He proposed to me right after I wrecked my own wedding?! Wait, what’s going on here? Since when were we such a lovey-dovey couple?!

Model Lee Hwi-hyun is, unfortunately, a man suffering from impotence and inexperience. One day, he meets the famous photographer Jung Mi-eul. At first, she seems modest and composed—but the moment the shoot begins, she changes completely, overpowering Hwi-hyun like a predator closing in on its prey. Under Mi-eul’s intense, burning gaze, heat starts to rise within Hwi-hyun, and as someone who finds excitement through the camera lens, Mi-eul herself becomes increasingly aroused as the shoot continues...

“I’ll gladly fall for it. For you.” Moon Doha, the sole heir of the Imoon Group. “Your name is Lee Seulbi, correct?” “Yes… that’s right. But who are you?” A casino dealer known as Chloe is tasked with seducing a man who is still searching for his lover who died eight years ago— all to retrieve a certain item. ‘If I fail, Mama Kwan’s treatment will be for nothing.’ Her face, her voice, even her scent— everything about her reminds him of Lee Seulbi. Yet every circumstance insists that she is not the woman he’s looking for. “Fine. Go ahead.” “Do what?” “What you were planning to do to me.” Trusting his instincts, Doha willingly throws himself into the biggest gamble of his life— betting everything he has.

Yeon Iseul, the top student in her entire school, suddenly starts seeing people’s true feelings as hashtags floating above them. Then one day, her first love, Seong Shinwoo, attaches a hashtag to her: #Trash_That_Used_To_Be_My_First_Love The old wound of being dumped without knowing the reason is torn open again, and Iseul joins forces with Baek Seol, a guy who hates Shinwoo. Is this revenge, or lingering feelings? This time, who will be the one to get hurt first?

“My boyfriend’s… there just wasn’t very confident, hngh…” After breaking off her engagement with a boyfriend who lacked confidence in that department, Wang Sodam falls into heartbreak—and ends up spending a drunken night with her boss, Yoon Jun-woo. But after that night, something strange happens. No matter how much he tries to calm himself down, Jun-woo suffers from an odd condition— his confidence simply won’t go down. And the only person who can cure him… is Sodam. “I’ll try to fix you, Team Leader. But in return, you have to prove something to me too.” “What do I need to prove?” “That I’m attractive to men.” Will Jun-woo’s malfunctioning, overflowing confidence ever be brought under control?

For three years, Ji-hyeok and So-hee lived as a show-window couple, and eventually, they decided to divorce. But then So-hee finds out she is pregnant with Ji-hyeok’s child… Trying to hide her pregnancy, she pushes forward with the divorce, while Ji-hyeok tries to cancel it—causing the two of them to drift apart further. Even after submitting the divorce papers, their relationship doesn’t end. By coincidence, they keep running into each other, and every time, So-hee feels her heart race. Is it because she’s afraid her child will be taken away? Or is it because—within this toxic relationship—lingering affection, or maybe even hate-love, still exists…?

The man was never needed for more than a single night. Forced by her parents into marriage to pay off their debt, she chose to believe the words of the man who claimed to love her just as much. But the price of that complacent rationalization was paid three years later—through her husband’s infidelity and their divorce. She no longer wanted love, nor shallow words of courtship. Yuna Kwon, an art auctioneer divorced because of her husband’s affair, meets a man one day at a bar and spends a night of reckless escape with him. One night with a man who could fulfill her fantasy was supposed to be enough— but against her expectations, she gets entangled with him, dragged into an irresistible relationship like sinking into quicksand. “Don’t be nervous. That night was amazing, that’s all.” Their bodies tangled passionately, while their hearts stayed distant— until the day he boldly crossed the line. “Sorry, but I’m done hiding my feelings.” A woman who no longer believes in love, nor intends to fall in love again—Yuna Kwon. A man who has loved her silently for a long time, and now refuses to lose the chance to finally hold her—Lee Chang-woo.

Seowol is married off to the Northern King, who is called a 'barbarian', replacing the legitimate princess. The Northern King's reaction to Seowol, who has taken the place of the fake princess, is somewhat strange. "This wretched body... just smelling your blood makes me go into heat..." "Let's go to the bridal chamber, my beautiful concubine." The sun is still high in the sky, but they say it's time for the wedding night?